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Okay, I have to catch the train. Second half of today's summer mini-Gawker around five. It's good to get out! Just ask these drunk monkeys. Gawker Sunday, July 20, 2008 Music Review: Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider Before there was Kiss, before there was Marilyn Manson, there was Alice Cooper.
Before there was Kiss, before there was Marilyn Manson, there was Alice Cooper. Back in his seventies heyday, as the guy who more or less grandfathered the whole concept of rock theatre (or as it is most commonly known, "shock rock"), Alice Cooper was regarded as a genuine threat to the youth of America by just about everyone in a... Blogcritics.org Sunday, July 20, 2008 Music Review: Elvis Presley - Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) Essential Elvis: Chapter 22
Elvis returned to the studio in mid June of 1970 and cut 35 tracks. By this time he was literally recording live in the studio with a minimum of backing. Members of his band and assorted support singers would add their tracks after the fact. Elvis and his producer, Felton Jarvis, realized they had a large number of straight country songs on tape... Blogcritics.org Sunday, July 20, 2008 Monkey Menace Reaches Terrifying New Level [Monkeys!] It's a well-known fact that the monkeys have been plotting against us since the days of yore. But their terrible plans will get sped up quite horribly once they've mastered the skill of banking. That's right. Someone's been teaching the little hellions how to use money! "[O]ne can get some clues as to how evolution prepared us for money from the burgeoning research that seeks to present animals with economic choices. To gain perspective on human financial decisions, one may ask, what would monkeys do?Keith Chen and Marc Hauser at Yale University taught monkeys about resources that bear a strong resemblance to money. Monkeys don't care about money, per se, but they do care about marshmallows." "A resource (marshmallows) exchange task was introduced whereby pressing a lever would give another monkey a marshmallow; hence this was a task that involved a bit of altruism. Not only were monkeys taught about the game. Two specific monkeys were conditioned (entrained), such that one always pu Gawker Sunday, July 20, 2008 Doing Crack With David Carr [Books] A memoir worth reading? Imagine that! new york Times media reporter David Carr's Night of the Gun comes out next month, and it's been treated to a nice nine-page excerpt in today's NYT Magazine. After detailing how he became a crack addict and how his dealer/girlfriend prematurely gave birth to his twin daughters (which you should totally read) he tackles the question of memoirs, which have been so sorely tarnished in the last few years. But was it really all thus? When memory is called to answer, it often answers back with deception. How is it that almost every warm bar stool contains a hero, a star of his own epic, who is the sum of his amazing stories? If I said I was a fat thug who beat up women and sold bad coke, would you like my story? What if instead I wrote that I was a recovered addict who obtained sole custody of my twin girls, got us off welfare and raised them by myself, even though I had a little touch of cancer? Now we're talking. Both are equally true, but as a membe Gawker Sunday, July 20, 2008 Choire Got A Grace Park Interview! [Battlestar Galactica] Former Gawker editor and lucky bastard Choire Sicha got to interview Battlestar Galactica's Pretty Asian Cyclon Grace Park for today's LA Times. Lucky bastard. He opens up with a question about a certain leggy Maxim photo spread. One second you're on a squeaky-clean Canadian soap, the next moment you're in high heels and panties in a Maxim shoot. I wasn't like 18, where it was sending off sparks and it was taboo, you know how the American public likes to do that. The show's publicist one day called and said, "Would you be interested in doing Maxim?" And I said, "Do I get the cover?" And she said no. And I said, "Hell yeah!" So she broke it down and I was really happy with it. And that helped me get "Cleaner." Not that I was dressing like that — but it put a different image in people's heads. When we know you as someone in an armor bodysuit, it does change the perspective on you. Just look at media, and how they like to do headlines. You want to catch people's attention. Eh, Gawker Sunday, July 20, 2008 Shanghainese disco bunny steals UK govt official's heart, nicks his Blackberry A top aide to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was seduced by a hot woman he met in a Shanghai disco, who came back to his hotel room. In the morning, his (unencrypted) Blackberry was gone. Crypto: 1, Penis: 0. The group stayed at the disco for at least two hours. One senior aide was approached by an attractive Chinese woman. The couple danced and later disappeared together. The security official said: "In these circumstances it was not wise. Nobody knows exactly what happened after they left. But the next morning he came forward and said: "My BlackBerry is missing." The prime minister's Special Branch protection team were alerted. Link (via /.)... BoingBoing Sunday, July 20, 2008 Star Wars photoshopping contest Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: Star Wars meets fine art. There are so many fantastic entries here -- I was very hard pressed to pick a favorite (pet, shown here). Other noteworthies: Thomas Kinkade with AT-AT, King Jabba VIII, Vitruvian Wookiee, Da Vinci's R2 plans, Napoleon Vaderpart and Vaderhol. Link... BoingBoing Sunday, July 20, 2008 Robin Carpenter's (concept?) design for a laptop chair really strikes a chord with me. My house and office always seem to be a minefield of laptops balanced on chair-arms or stood on edge on the floor. I'd love to be able to pop the little guy down beside me and pick up the paper for a bit without risking sending him crashing to the ground. Link (via Cribcandy)... BoingBoing Sunday, July 20, 2008 Survival Research Labs benefit for Todd Blair tonight in SF Eddie Codel reminds us that tonight (Sunday, July 20) is the big benefit for SRL member Todd Blair, in San Francisco. You don't have to be there in person to help. Snip: Todd Blair, whom I've known since 1999 through Survival Research Labs, suffered a traumatic head injury last year at the Robodock SRL show in Amsterdam. I posted previously about it here. He's back home in the US slowly and arduously recovering. Traumatic brain injuries are probably the worst kind of injury a human being could suffer, and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. To help offset Todd's massive medical and physical therapy bills, a fundraiser event is being held this Sunday, July 20th. It's not just an event, but a culmination of lots of work and dedication from Todd's friends and family with some unique creative twists. The event on Sunday will be the unveiling of the "gear wall". The 7' x 8' wall consists of 25 interlocking aluminum gears built by 25 friends and artists who have committed to raising a BoingBoing Sunday, July 20, 2008 1 2 3 4
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